I came across as really need video that shows how to do css-shapes and want to share some of that with you. It was very interesting because it showed how to make text shape around an image.
So if you had an image of a circle you can make the text shape around it or if you had an unusual shape like say some grapes you can make the text wrapped around each and every grape. This is really cool kind of similar to what you see in magazine formatting. It’s just a simple CSS command put inside of the image element that allows this to happen. The command is shape-outside: circle(); and this allows the text to wrap around the image in a circlar manner. It is a much more attractive way to wrap text than straight lines.
There is also a polygon way of shaping text for those images that are a bit irregular, like a bunch of grapes in the example below: For this, the code will need to be retrieved that shows the exact positioning of coordinates around the image. This tool is called Page Inspector by Firefox and allows the images on the page to be inspected and info on the proper coordinates to be set found.
Here’s the full video here that shows all the different ways for shaping text around images:
The video is by Jen Simmons a designer advocate at Mozilla. Creator of Firefox Grid Inspector and member of CSS Working Group. She teaches you how CSS Grid changes everything web graphic design and produces awesome YouTube videos on web design on her channel:
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This is really cool kind of similar to what you see in magazine formatting. It’s just a simple CSS command put inside of the image element that allows this to happen. The command is shape-outside: circle(); and this allows the text to wrap around the image in a circlar manner. It is a much more attractive way to wrap text than straight lines.
For this, the code will need to be retrieved that shows the exact positioning of coordinates around the image. This tool is called Page Inspector by Firefox and allows the images on the page to be inspected and info on the proper coordinates to be set found.
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